Andy Olin

In her bookish column today, the Chronicle’s Maggie Galehouse wrote about Banned Books Week, which began Sunday. The week is an attempt by the American Library Association to attract attention to books about which administrators, teachers, parents and religious groups have complained. Galehouse writes: When a book is “banned,” it is taken off library or […]
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A full-time newspaper reporter or editor writing a book in his or her off-time is something like a chef going home at the end of dinner service and cooking for friends and family. It’s not unheard of, but it takes a certain determination to do a job for eight, 10 or more hours a day […]
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